Jekyll2025-12-05T05:03:17+00:00https://www.cosseratrods.org/feed.xmlElasticaElastica is an open-source software package for the simulation of assemblies of Cosserat rods.Gazzola Lab | Univeristy of IllinoisPyElastica v0.1.0 Released2020-11-02T00:00:00+00:002020-11-02T00:00:00+00:00https://www.cosseratrods.org/2020/11/02/pyelastica-v0.1.0-releaseWe have officially released PyElastica v0.1.0!

Upgrade PyElastica with the command $ pip install –-upgrade pyelastica

New This Release

This release of PyElastica uses the Python package numba to enable just in time compilation leading to a ~8x speedup over the previous version. Numba is not required to run PyElastica and if numba is not installed, PyElastica will defualt to the non-numba implementation. As such, if you wish to take advantage of the speed-up afforded by numba, please be sure to install it separately.

Future releases of PyElastica will require numba and we will no longer be maintaining the non-numba code beyond this release.

We have also included an example script for visualizing PyElastica simulations using POVray. This script is located in the examples folder (examples/visualization).

PyElastica is available for download on GitHub

]]>Gazzola Lab | Univeristy of IllinoisPIP Package for PyElastica (v0.0.2)2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:002020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00https://www.cosseratrods.org/2020/04/15/pyelastica-pipWe have created a PyPI package for PyElastica. You can now easily install PyElastica with the command: $ pip install pyelastica.

]]>Gazzola Lab | Univeristy of IllinoisPyElastica v0.0.1 Released2020-04-08T00:00:00+00:002020-04-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.cosseratrods.org/2020/04/08/initial-release-of-pyelasticaWe have publicly released the initial release of PyElasica (v0.0.1)!

This current version of PyElastica is the educational version. It is a straight forward Python implementation of the Elastica method making heavy use of numpy. As such, it is very slow. We are working on a significantly accelerated Python version of the code that we hope to release soon.

PyElastica is available for download on GitHub

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